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Below piece was published in Weekly Worker issue number 1503 under the title “Nature’s gift to humanity?”[1]https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1503/natures-gift-to-humanity/. That title was chosen by their editorial board and I’d like to remove that questionmark. They also choose to represent my piece by a photo from Pripyat, with the description “City of Pripyat, Ukraine: abandoned following the Chernobyl… Continue reading Nature’s gift to humanity

From 6 to 9 June there’ll be elections for the next European Parliament. Resulting from this there’ll also be a new European Commission that’ll be in charge of EU strategy for the next five years. What should we aim for with this new EC if we want to help nuclear energy? The next EP is… Continue reading What to aim for with the next European Commission?

In daily parlance sustainability has become completely synonymous with ‘renewable’. On the Dutch wikipedia article on the topic it actually treats the two terms as one. It’s time we untangle this and appropriate the term for nuclear. I’ll not make the case that nuclear is renewable. It is not. After all, it uses uranium that… Continue reading Let’s talk about sustainability

Our World in Data (OWID) is a valuable resource on the big problems that face our world: poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality. Their energy coverage overall is great, but they badly got something wrong and I need to talk about that. I’m specifically referring to the article titled What are… Continue reading Why Our World In Data is wrong on nuclear safety

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On 11 January the municipal council of Borsele decided it’ll accept the 39 conditions of a group of 100 local citizens that were consulted on the topic of building two new nuclear power plants. What are these conditions and how will they impact the project going forward? But first, who is this group anyway? In… Continue reading Who’s afraid of the Borsele group of 100?

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In early November news broke that NuScale faced a setback. The Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) pulled the plug on an already scaled down six-unit plant. This brings up the question of the business case of small modular reactors. Is the hype justified, or an empty shell about to burst? I’m going to make… Continue reading The three cases for SMRs